Create Server

Create a server to host the Mobile Main Street application. If you need help with this step please reference the Digital Ocean or Compute Engine install guides. Choose an option that comes with Docker preinstalled such as Ubuntu with Docker or CoreOS.

Create MySQL Instance

Create a MySQL instance for the server. The instance can be local or located at another IP address. Once created record the following information for use in the MySQL URL:
- IP Address (ip)
- User (user)
- Password (password)
- Database Name (databaseName)

MySQL URL Format: user:password@tcp(ip)/databaseName

Create a Twitter App

Create a Twitter App to be able to use the Twitter API. Visit https://apps.twitter.com/app/new login and fill out the form.

Select the Application and select “Keys and Access Tokens”. Record the “Consumer Key” and “Consumer Secret”.

Create a Facebook App

Create a Facebook App to be able to use the Facebook Graph API. Visit https://developers.facebook.com/quickstarts/?platform=web login and select “Skip and Create App ID”. Then fill out the form shown.

Select the created application and hit “show” next to the “App Secret”. Record the “App ID” and “App Secret”.

Create a Mailgun Account

Visit https://mailgun.com/signup and fill out the requested information.

After creating the account record the “API Key”, “Public API Key”, and the first of the “Mailgun Subdomains”. These are the same values that are blacked out in the screenshot.